rnoaa (version 0.6.0)

buoy: Get NOAA buoy data from the National Buoy Data Center

Description

Get NOAA buoy data from the National Buoy Data Center

Usage

buoy(dataset, buoyid, year = NULL, datatype = NULL, ...)
buoys(dataset, ...)

Arguments

dataset

(character) Dataset name to query. See below for Details. Required

buoyid

Buoy ID, can be numeric/integer/character. Required

year

(integer) Year of data collection. Optional

datatype

(character) Data type, one of 'c', 'cc', 'p', 'o'. Optional

...

Curl options passed on to GET. Optional

Details

Functions:

• buoys Get available buoys given a dataset name
• buoy Get data given some combination of dataset name, buoy ID, year, and datatype

Options for the dataset parameter. One of:

• adcp - Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data
• adcp2 - MMS Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data
• cwind - Continuous Winds data
• dart - Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis data
• mmbcur - Marsh-McBirney Current Measurements data
• ocean - Oceanographic data
• pwind - Peak Winds data
• stdmet - Standard Meteorological data
• swden - Spectral Wave Density data with Spectral Wave Direction data
• wlevel - Water Level data

References

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ and http://dods.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Examples

## Not run: 
# # Get available buoys
# buoys(dataset = 'cwind')
# 
# # Get data for a buoy
# ## if no year or datatype specified, we get the first file
# buoy(dataset = 'cwind', buoyid = 46085)
# 
# # Including specific year
# buoy(dataset = 'cwind', buoyid = 41001, year = 1999)
# 
# # Including specific year and datatype
# buoy(dataset = 'cwind', buoyid = 41001, year = 2008, datatype = "cc")
# buoy(dataset = 'cwind', buoyid = 41001, year = 2008, datatype = "cc")
# 
# # Other datasets
# buoy(dataset = 'ocean', buoyid = 41029)
# 
# # curl debugging
# library('httr')
# buoy(dataset = 'cwind', buoyid = 46085, config=verbose())
# 
# # some buoy ids are character, case doesn't matter, we'll account for it
# buoy(dataset = "stdmet", buoyid = "VCAF1")
# buoy(dataset = "stdmet", buoyid = "wplf1")
# buoy(dataset = "dart", buoyid = "dartu")
# ## End(Not run)